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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
No fashionable organisation is complete these days without a website to call its own. So it is with the positively Blairite New Health Network, which, though not yet in cyberspace, certainly has something trundling towards the launch pad.
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Costs of the triage scheme
TAS nurse triage software: installation, training and full support and upgrades £9,400
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'Threat' to services in contractual switch
Acute and teaching hospitals face losing millions of pounds, putting services 'in danger', because of the switch to service agreements and out-of-area treatments, trust finance managers warned this week.
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Ex-NHS finance director faces CIPFA investigation
A former NHS finance director faces an investigation by his professional body over allegations that he took £50,000 from a London medical school.
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Looking forward: possible future roles for CHCs
To scrutinise the commissioning and provision of health and personal social services in the interests of the public.
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A stand on ceremony
I was surprised that your article on royal visits ('Why roll out the red carpet...' cover feature, 8 April) made no reference to a guide to hospital visits called Ceremonial Occasions, produced by North West Thames regional health authority and widely used by trusts. Your own publication included a feature ...
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Two-week waiting target depends on numbers thought to have cancer, not just those who do
We recently surveyed GP referrals to secondary care with a differential diagnosis of cancer. We grossed up the number of referrals to annual levels for the whole of Buckinghamshire and compared them to actual annual cancer registration.
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Hidden cameras to detect staff crime
A trust is set to agree a code of practice on using hidden cameras to detect staff crime, which could be adopted across the NHS.
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Dead and buried: Milburn's PFI review
A key Department of Health review of the private finance initiative is now unlikely ever to see the light of day, according to HSJ sources.
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BMA slams police privatisation plan
Plans by a second police force to privatise police surgeon services have come under fire from the British Medical Association after claims that standards have slipped since the first contract was let.
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The truly great pretenders Trouble in Borsetshire brings out managers' best in first HSJ challenge
Health services in the fictional county of Borsetshire are every manager's nightmare. An escalating health authority deficit, a recently merged acute trust with deep-rooted tensions, a prying MP, ever-more demanding patients, a naughty non-executive, a wayward single-handed GP and serious worries about year 2000 compliance. All this and an implacable ...